impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show‚ for spectators were few. I checked my watch‚ it was just about to be ten o’clock‚ but chilly winds with a speck of rain made me shiver. There was a very thick fog surrounding me and the lights on the street were amazingly hard to see. I am a very freindlt person‚ ive had many friends along the way‚ they come and go‚ but I am waiting on one of my friends to show up‚ if he ever does. This friends name was jim‚ but he likes to be called jimmy
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have had many experiences in my life that have shaped who I am. These influences have given me qualities that I consider both good and bad. Each of these chapters in my life have given form to the values that I hold as well as my self-identity. There are five main chapters of my life that influenced who I am today‚ and those chapters are elementary/middle school‚ Boy Scouts‚ High School‚ college‚ and lastly my parents. The first chapter that made me who I am today is my elementary and middle school
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word hero? My mom‚ Wendy Crow and everything she does for me pops into my head. My mom grew up with two sisters on a farm with animals such as ostriches‚ chickens‚ and cows‚ so basically stinky animals. She seriously knows how to be patient and helpful. My mom works all day to make sure my brothers and I succeed and get what we need. My mom‚ Wendy is my hero because she is always patient‚ doesn’t give up on me‚ and then again‚ her and my dad works all day to support my family and I. My mom is always
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write down my confession. Not the story I told the my lawyer‚ the judge‚ the jury or even my own family. It’s nothing like the embellished slander written in the headlines. No‚ I need to confess the truth. The real story of why I’m serving life. How could I tell anyone the truth? They’d put me in the nuthouse. I’ve heard those places are worse than prison. Yet‚ I have to write this down. I need to get this off my chest. Maybe the warden will publish this when I die. Let them piggyback off my sorrow
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“It has been about four years or so since we last talked. Funny how times goes by‚ isn’t it; not that you would notice I’m gone since you found her. Now look at us‚ you’re engaged to a woman only because she has your child after a year or so of you complaining how horrible she is‚ and how you can’t wait for her to be out of your life. Was it all just some game to see if I would come back to you‚ and your sadistic ways? It’s odd now that I think of you‚ of what you ever said‚ of us. I suppose it is
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It’s Thursday‚ the day of the Farmers Market in Swansea‚ Il. This market takes place every Thursday at the Rural King parking lot‚ during the summer months of April thru October.My grandfather Norm started this event about 4 year ago‚ with just around 3 vendors. Now the business booming‚ with approximately 15 vendors participating ‚vendors now range from wooden sculptures‚ to jewelry‚ and even Shea butter to help eliminate dry skin. Norm was born and raised in Belleville‚ il where he and his wife
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The Truth About Prostitution Prostitution. It is a powerful word‚ which‚ with just four syllables‚ breeds uneasiness. I have gone almost my entire life without understanding what lies behind it. We live in a society where pop culture and the media give us strong suggestions as to how we should see the world around us‚ and they have not been kind to the concept of prostitution. Hollywood has shown us that prostitutes are the foul-mouths in fishnets roaming the streets of Memphis in the movie
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hope not. In the folktale “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” retold by Leo Tolstoy‚ the son and his wife treat the grandfather extremely disrespectfully and meanly. In the poem “Abuelito Who” by Sandra Cisneros‚ the grandfather is sick and the granddaughter feels like the grandfather’s former self is gone. An important theme in both of these pieces is‚ one should respect those who are old and weak. In the folktale‚ the son and his wife treat the grandfather very disrespectfully. They act
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What a journey my writing has experience over the past seven weeks has been. I have grown as writer more in this class than I have previously. Writing has always been a challenge for me. Many people have heard of someone who just can’t get math‚ well that is me with writing. Back in high school there many times that an assignment did not get turned‚ not because I had not worked on it‚ but I could never get the ideas in my head to make sense when I wrote them on paper. I would get so frustrated
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Stigma Around Death‚ and Embalming Attending an open casket funeral and peering into the final resting place of someone you may have known‚ or even loved‚ can be disconcerting for a number of reasons. The waxy look of an embalmed corpse‚ the spectacle made by those grieving over it‚ the pity or sadness one feels for the departed‚ and the reminder and promise of one’s own demise looming around the corner is enough to make any sane person frightened or uncomfortable with the idea of death. People of today’s
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